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title: Use cases for ES|QL
description: These pages detail how to use ES|QL for search and cybersecurity use cases: ES|QL for search: Learn how to use ES|QL for lexical (keyword) search, relevance...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/query-languages/esql/esql-use-cases
products:
  - Elasticsearch
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Use cases for ES|QL
These pages detail how to use ES|QL for search and cybersecurity use cases:
- [ES|QL for search](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/solutions/search/esql-for-search): Learn how to use ES|QL for lexical (keyword) search, relevance scoring, semantic and hybrid search, semantic reranking, and more.
- [ES|QL for security](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/solutions/security/esql-for-security): Learn how to use ES|QL for threat hunting, timeline investigation, detection rules, and migrating Splunk queries.